Parry Graham is the principal of Nashoba Regional High School in Bolton, Massachusetts. In his twenty years of experience in public education, he has worked in a variety of roles, including as a high school teacher, educational consultant, and clinical assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His passion, however, is educational leadership, and Parry has worked as a school-based administrator at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. His first book, Building a Professional Learning Community at Work: A Guide to the First Year with co-author Bill Ferriter, was Learning Forward's 2010 Book of the Year, and was recognized as a 2009 Book of the Year Bronze award winner by Foreword Magazine. Parry completed his doctorate at UNC-Chapel Hill, and has published articles in the Journal of Staff Development, Research in Middle Level Education Online, Connexions, and TechLearning.